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HSK2 Finale — Although, Been There, How Many Times, About To, Already
阶段小结 ⑮ — HSK2 终点：虽然但是 · 过 · 次 · 快要了 · 都了
The last stop of HSK2: 虽然……但是, V过, 几次, 快要……了, 都……了 — then eighteen questions close the road. Pass, and Basic Grammar is behind you.
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Only a picture on the front, and the cards sweep the whole HSK2 road. Say the word out loud — misses go into your wrong-answer book, and the card still turns.
虽然……很辣，但是我很喜欢
Huǒguō
火锅
hotpot
你去过……吗？
Chángchéng
长城
the Great Wall
你吃过几次……？
Chòudòufu
臭豆腐
stinky tofu
我喝过一次……
Báijiǔ
白酒
Chinese liquor
餐厅快要……了
Guānmén
关门
to close
手机快要……了
Méi diàn
没电
out of battery
他都……了，还在工作
Tuìxiū
退休
to retire
这是不是……？
Liúlián
榴莲
durian
这块……是我的
Shǒubiǎo
手表
wristwatch
往上看是……的屁股
Xióngmāo
熊猫
panda
Read this — the road's last week
One week of mine, with every HSK2 point on duty. Find the 虽然……但是, the 过, the 次, the 快要……了 and the 都……了 first — then count how many older frames you recognise.
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The HSK2 final
Paper A of 3Eighteen questions to close the HSK2 road. Sixteen to pass — a miss hands you a different paper, not the same one again.
- 1
____火锅很辣，但是我很喜欢吃。
____ Huǒguō hěn là, dànshì wǒ hěn xǐhuan chī.
Although hotpot is spicy, I love it.
- 2
Yes. Which reply?
- 3
I've eaten chicken feet once.
Tap the tiles in order — it checks itself when the sentence is complete. Tap a placed tile to take it back.
Your sentence
- 4
餐厅____关门了。
Cāntīng ____ Guānmén le.
The restaurant is about to close.
- 5
Your turn — say it
都十二点了，他还在睡觉。
It's already twelve, and he's still asleep.
- 6
我____喝过豆汁儿。
Wǒ ____ Hē guò dòuzhī ér.
I've never had douzhi.
- 7
Twice. Which reply?
- 8
Fill each line with the right piece.
Tap a word to fill the next gap; tap a filled sentence to clear it. Every word is used once.
Word bank
0/6 - 9
下个月我____回美国了。
Xiàgèyuè wǒ ____ Huí Měiguó le.
Next month I'm going back to the US.
- 10
Although he's rich, I don't like him.
Tap the tiles in order — it checks itself when the sentence is complete. Tap a placed tile to take it back.
Your sentence
- 11
Your turn — say it
我告诉过他三次，但是他不听。
I've told him three times, but he won't listen.
- 12
她____三十岁了，还没结婚。
Tā ____ Sānshísuì le, hái méi jiéhūn.
She's already thirty, and still not married.
- 13
Twice. Which reply?
- 14
圣诞节____来了。
Shèngdànjié ____ Lái le.
Christmas is almost here.
- 15
Have you been to the Great Wall?
Tap the tiles in order — it checks itself when the sentence is complete. Tap a placed tile to take it back.
Your sentence
- 16
Your turn — say it
虽然中文很难，但是很有意思。
Chinese is hard, but it's fascinating.
- 17
Pair each picture with its word — the whole road.
Tap a picture, then choose its word. Picked wrong? Tap that picture and choose again. Match all the cards to finish.
- 18
你不是要减肥吗？怎么____在吃火锅？
Nǐ bú shì yào jiǎnféi ma? Zěnme ____ Zài chīhuǒguō?
Weren't you dieting? Hotpot again?
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Words 生词
Characters 汉字
Before you go课后回顾
- Tell someone your whole week with the road's tools — the concessions, the experiences, the counts, the things about to happen, the things already too late. That is a conversation now, not an exercise.
- Look how far the road runs: in the first HSK2 lesson you could say 我要吃麻婆豆腐. Today you can say 虽然我吃过很多次麻婆豆腐，但是这家店的我是第一次吃 — the same dish, the whole HSK2 road between the two sentences.
- Record two minutes of your real week on your phone and send it to me — every frame in it is yours now. That recording is your HSK2 graduation certificate.